Nicknames of famous personalities from India and around the world

There are many famous personalities from around the world who are better known with their nicknames or pennames. These names, through their use in media or books, have become more popular than the original names of these personalities. Here are the nicknames of famous personalities from India and around the world that you should know about.

Famous Indian personalities and their nicknames

1. Mahatma Gandhi: Father of the Nation, Bapu, Mahatma
2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan
3. Dadabhai Naoroji: Grand Old man of India
4. Valmiki: Adi Kavi
5. Nagarjuna: Indian Einstein
6. Lal Bahadur Shastri: Man of Peace
7. Salim Ali: Bird man of India
8. Jawaharlal Nehru: Chacha, Pandit ji
9. Dr. Rajendra Prasad: Desh Ratna, Ajatshatru
10. Raja Ram Mohan Roy: Morning Star of India Renaissance
11. Dayanand Saraswati: Martin Luther of India
12. Mother Teresa: Mother
13. Subhash Chandra Bose: Netaji, Patriot of Patriots
14. Sankaracharya: Sage of Kanchi
15. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Strong (Iron) Man of India
16. PT Usha: Udanpari
17. Rabindranath Tagore: Vishwa Kavi, Kaviguru, Gurudev
18. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay: Sahitya Samrat
19. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhay: Kathasilpi
20. Lord Buddha: Enlightened One
21. Chanakya: Machiavelli of India
22. Dhyanchand: Magician of Hockey
23. Sarojini Naidu: Nightingale of India
24. Lata Mangeshkar: Swar Kokila
25. Chandra Shekhar: Young Turk
26. Sunil Gavaskar: Little Master
27. Kapil Dev: Haryana Hurricane
28. Saurav Ganguly: Prince of Kolkata
29. Sachin Tendulkar: Master Blaster
30. Milkha Singh: Flying Sikh
31. Sayyed Bandu: Kingmaker of Indian History
32. Indira Gandhi: Iron Lady of India
33. T Prakasam: Andhra Kesari
34. Ashutosh Mukherji: Bengal Kesari
35. Lala Lajpat Rai: Bengali Tiger
36. Bal Gangadhar Tilak: Punjab Kesari, Lokmanya
37. Dr. Srikrishna Singh: Bihar Kesari
38. Jainul Abdin: Akbar of Kashmir
39. CN Annadurai: Anna
40. Jagjeevan Ram: Babuji
41. Sheikh Mujibut Rahman: Banga bandhu
42. Bhagat Singh: Prince of Martyrs, Sahid-e-Azam
43. Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal: Together known as - Lal, Bal, Pal
44. Dr. Anugrah Narayan Singh: Bihar Vibhuti
45. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari: CR, Rajaji
46. CF Andrews: Deen bandhu
47. Chitta Ranjan Das: Desh bandhu
48. Yatindra Mohan Sengupta: Deshpriya
49. Ravi Shankar Maharaj: Father of Gujarat
50. Lord Rippon: Father of the Local Self-Government
51. Tushar Kanti Ghosh: Grand old man of Indian Journalism
52. Dhundiraj Govind Phalke: Grandfather of Indian Films
53. MS Golvalkar: Guruji
54. Karpuri Thakur: Jana Nayak
55. Sayyed Bandhu: King Maker of Indian History
56. KV Puttappa: Kuvempu
57. Jayaprakash Narayan: Loknayak
58. Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya: Mahamanya, Prince of Beggars
59. Tipu Sultan: Mysore Tiger
60. Samudra Gupta: Napoleon of India
61. Amir Khushro: Parrot of India, Tota-e-hind
62. Babur: Prince of Autobiography
63. Shah Jahan: Prince of Builders
64. Muhammad bin Tughlaq: Prince of Money Makers
65. Mohammad Ali Jinnah: Quaid-i-Azam
66. Purushottam Das Tandon: Rajashree
67. Mahakavi Kalidas: Shakespeare of India
68. Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah: Sher-e-Kashmir Lion of Kashmir
69. Major General Rajinder Singh: Sparrow
70. Chaudhury Devi Lal: Tau
71. Ho Chi Minh: Uncle Ho
72. MS Golwalkar: Guruji
73. Jayaprakash Narayan: JP
74. Maharaja Kumar of Vizianagara: Vizzy
75. Jagjiwan Ram: Babuji

Nicknames of famous personalities from around the world

1. Hiuen Tsang: Prince of Pilgrims
2. William Shakespeare: Bard of Avon
3. Hippocrates: Father of Medicine
4. Florence Nightingale: Lady with the lamp
5. Napoleon Bonaparte: Little Corporal,Man of Destiny
6. Joan of Arc: Maid of Orleans
7. Queen Elizabeth I: Maiden Queen
8. Adolf Hitler: Fuehrer
9. Otto Van Bismark: Man of Blood and Iron
10. Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens
11. Edmund Spencer: Poet’s Poet
12. Chengiz Khan: Scourage of God
13. Pearl Buck: Li-Kwan
14. George Bernard Shaw: GBS
15. Geoffery Chaucer: Father of English Poetry
16. Gen Ervin Rommel: Desert Fox
17. Willium E Gladstone: Grand Old Man of Britain
18. Benito Mussolini: II Duce
19. Earl of Warwick: King Maker
20. Duke of Wellington: Iron Duke
21. Sir Walter Scot: Wizard of the North
22. Richard Cobden: Apostle of Free Trade
23. General Eisenhower: Ike

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